running smaller relays is better. big relays are not just a free for all. look at primal, they censor, look at damus, it severely throttles by IP, look at nos, it feeds everything to LLMs and has sophisticated blocking.. none of which is transparent.
so your utopia view of these free big relays is flawed and would never work like I think you are thinking. better to lead by example and stop pretending a big free relay will have your interest in mind or be a good experience for everyone at once. by definition it will be more closed off because its under heavy load and doing its own things to cater to more people which would mean the experience degrades over time vs. running your own.
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Kinda sounds like relays will just end up like reddit subs....
There has to be a happy medium somewhere....
Good point we are still building
Thinking about running a relay again. I hardly get any activity, my content is mostly to blame but I think the relays have changed since.
Hello there can we have a chat 👋
90% people not understand tech / decentralization even inclu it-tech-pro
way bitcoin game is now centralized
same can happen to nostr 80% slowly if people NOT LEARN n keep ready local backup app relay by themselves just rely on some domain forever.
regulations will ARRIVE in NOSTR for big famous relays someday just like bitcoin - matter of time
dart's brain is cooked maxi SAUCE
many thing will not go into his head but only through his ANUS.
"utopia" never works he will learn n next 5 years slowly